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Liberate Shangjin and march to Yunxi
In late August 1947, after the 12th Brigade of the Chen Xie Corps (Fourth Column) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (then known as the Eighth Route Army) crossed the Yellow River, it was like a bamboo, linking several cities, and had the tendency to rush south to western Yuxi and southern Shaanxi, and to advance to northwest Hubei.
Soon after, the Kuomintang Yunxi County Government learned of this military information from a secret telegram from its superiors, and officials of all sizes were panicked. On the one hand, they demanded that reinforcements be sent, and on the other hand, they mobilized local teams throughout the county, immediately set up three lines of defense in Shangjin, Tiancangshan, and Wuguliang, set up sentry tents, dug bunkers, and divided troops to guard them, and organized more than 1,000 migrant workers to step up the repair of the three pillboxes and moats in the east, west, and Chunshan. The north and south four gate towers of the two ancient cities of West and Tianjin and all the important checkpoints, key passes, and intersections of the county are strengthened to guard and be on duty day and night. All passers-by will be strictly checked, even those who beg for rice and rice.
On 10 September, after the 12th Brigade opened the county town of Lushi in Henan, it adopted the policy of "dividing the troops into three routes and opening up the situation separately" and advanced with all its might towards southern Shaanxi and northwestern Hubei.
On November 12, a battalion of the 35th Regiment of the Middle Road, led by Qin Jinduo, went south to Manchuan Pass, and liberated Shangjin Town on the same day. Zhou Shuhua, the head of the township and squadron leader of Jinxiang (i.e., Shangjin), led more than 70 soldiers and cronies and their minions to resist for a while in the eighteen pans, and fled from Mengchuan in the direction of the county seat.
On the left side, with the 34th Regiment as the main force, it expanded southwest from Lushi, and arrived at Manchuan Pass on November 12 after liberating Longju Village (now Danfeng) and Shangnan County. After studying the operational plan for attacking Yunxi County, it was determined that Shao Kang (i.e., Shao Jianmin) would serve as the magistrate of Yunxi County. On the 14th, the 34th Regiment set out from Manchuan Pass and marched eastward. On the morning of the 15th, the striker opened Huangyunpu. More than 100 people from the volunteer police squad of the local township office and the Zhou Customization Department who fled from Shangjin withdrew while fighting. In the middle of the afternoon, the Eighth Route Army pursued the enemy to Xiangkou Guofeng Tower (Dasheng Pass) to open the enemy.
Because of my favorable terrain, the enemy fled for fear of being captured alive. From Huangyun to Guofeng Tower, he outflanked several small roads along the road, captured more than 20 enemies, killed several people, and obtained more than 10 guns. Our army sacrificed one soldier at the mouth of Wangjiagou in Huangyunpu. On the eve of dusk, our army went straight down from Guofeng Tower along the east side of the Yuanling Mountain, and pursued the enemy to the mouth of the dry ditch with an outflanking posture. All the remnants of the enemy fled to the county seat, leaving only a few sentry posts along the way.
Except for one telephone, the Tuxiu (i.e., Shimen) Township Office ran out of military and political personnel. That night, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army stayed overnight in various mountain beams above the mouth of the dry ditch, strengthened their sentry posts, and prevented the enemy from counterattacking. After midnight, there was a sudden snowstorm, and the snow in the mountains was more than five inches thick, and the mountains, rivers, green pines and ancient cypresses were all covered with snow. The fighters spent an extraordinary night in the ice and snow.
At dawn on the 16th (the fourth day of the tenth lunar month), the sky was clear, the clouds were rolling, and there was a silvery world everywhere. The 1st Battalion of our 34th Regiment came down from all the mountain beams and began a new offensive. It only took a few shots at Tumen Street to pass smoothly. After that, Peng Guobang led the way, and went straight to the area of Liuguanping Jinchai Stone, without any resistance along the way. When our army, under the leadership of deputy regiment commander Niu Yuchuan, faced the rising sun, stepped on ice and snow, and advanced to the Red Temple, we heard gunshots in front of us. It turned out that Deng Hanmin, the head of the Kuomintang Yunxi County Brigade guarding the "third line of defense" in Wuguliang, began to desperately resist us. After the two sides received fire, our troops immediately divided into three routes: one to the east, into Yanzigou, over Sigou, and to climb the Huagai Mountain behind the county seat; all the way to the south, down the big river, bypassing the enemy's firepower point in Chunshan, and penetrating straight to the southern end of the slope of the school field, and entering the vicinity of the Catholic Church; on the other hand, the main force of the main road, using the ridge as a cover, crawled along the road along the mountain, facing the enemy's third line of defense, and forcibly occupied the top of Wuguliang Mountain.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning, our army carried out a "pocket-style" three-way outflanking situation in Yunxi County. The enemy's three squadrons and one independent squadron totaled more than 500 people, distributed in the four firepower points of East and West Huangshan, Chunshan and Wuguliang, and resisted with all their might. After more than an hour, the enemy saw that the situation was not good, the fire weakened, and began to abandon the city and flee. After retreating to Da Nan Pass, he barely resisted for a while, and then retreated in the direction of Train Ridge.
On the east and west sides of our army, on the one hand, they checked the remnants of the enemy in the artillery towers at Huangshan and Chunshan respectively and cleaned up the battlefield, and on the other hand, they monitored the enemy's movements at several commanding heights. The main force of the middle road penetrated the north pass of the county through the five grain beams, and a person who set up a cigarette stall threw away the city gate bar, opened the city gate, and the troops entered the city. The city was closed to the rest of the city. The outpost fighters immediately conducted a detailed search of the county government, the county party headquarters, the county senate, the police station, and other key departments.
The entire battle lasted less than three hours. Most of the enemy's main forces fled. Our troops captured 58 enemy personnel and captured more than 270 weapons of various kinds. The "Proclamation of the Democratic Government of Yunxi County" signed by Shao Jianmin was immediately put up to propagate the purpose of our party and our army, announcing the confiscation of bureaucratic capital, the development of national industry and commerce, the improvement of the living standards of workers and workers, and the relief of impoverished disaster victims; the army practiced "three major disciplines and eight points of attention," did not take a stitch from the masses, and united, equal, and mutually assisted the army and the people to jointly eliminate the enemy's stubbornness; relied on the poor hired in the rural areas, united the middle peasants, established peasant associations, cracked down on local tyrants, divided the land, and implemented the practice that the cultivators had their own land; and implemented the policy of "dealing with the first evil, never asking about the cooperation, and receiving awards for meritorious service" for the officers and men of Chiang.
With the regimental work team as the backbone, the 34th regiment formed a mass work team to go deep into the streets, go door to door, visit the poor and ask about their suffering, publicize policies, and establish district and village peasant associations and neighborhood political power.
Since then, Yunxi County, which has been ruled by the feudal landlord class for more than 500 years, has been liberated for the first time.
Take advantage of the victory to pursue, and capture the enemy in the river clip
On 15 November, more than 70 remnants of the Zhou Vulgarization retreated to the county seat, and after being reprimanded by Wang Shibian, the head of the enemy county, they immediately plotted to interrogate the areas around Ma'an and Liulang overnight in an attempt to smuggle across the Qian River, run west to the Siyu River, and go to the Taiping Mountain and Xiangudong areas to fight guerrilla attacks and engage in sabotage activities, so as to copy the back roads of the newly liberated areas in the areas of Shangjin, Guanfang, and Miaochuan.
Before the sun set on the afternoon of 15 July, a group of important military and political personnel of the Kuomintang county government, the county party headquarters, the county senate and other units, except for a few who fled westward, fled to Cheolling to establish a so-called "front-line command post."
On the morning of the 16th, Wang Shixie and Huang Baozhang, secretary general of the Yunxi County Party Department of the Kuomintang, retreated to Rocket Township (now Hejiadian). On the way, Li Xiushan, who was sent by the Eighth Special Administration, led more than 100 soldiers to meet him, and because the situation was not good, he returned to Hejiadian together. That night, a so-called "special meeting" was held at the township office. The participants included Wang Shibian, Huang Baozhang, Guan Zhixiang, director of the office of the Three People's Youth League, Yang Zijian, vice chairman of the county senate, Chen Wanli, chief of the police department, Deng Hanmin, captain of the police brigade, Chen Jiu, secretary of the county government, and more than 20 people, including the director of the radio station, the chief of the civil affairs section, and the heads of the township offices of Chuanzhen (now Chengguan), Antao (now Anjia), and Tuxiu (now Tumen).
The main agenda was the analysis of the military situation. Study the "anti-communist strategy". At the meeting, the two opinions of "fighting" and "retreating" were at odds. In the end, it was decided that: (1) to contact the Yunyang Eighth Supervision District about the retreat; (2) to send Deng Hanmin with two squadrons to quickly "counterattack" Yunxi County; (3) to draw up a "Letter to the People of the County"; (4) appoint Yang Heng, the former head of the social section, as the head of the "wartime" rocket township; (5) order the Zhou Folk Department, which had fled from the county seat to Ma'an, to "vigorously suppress the rear road of the communist army" in the Xixiang area; (6) The existing military and political dignitaries are scattered and hidden; (7) The county government documents and files (core part) carried by the army are buried on the spot.
After the meeting, Zhang Yayi, commissioner of the Commissioner's Office of the Eighth Administrative Supervision District of Yunyang, replied that he would "stubbornly defend" the Yunxi position and not be allowed to retreat; the newly appointed head of Rocket Township, the vice chairman of the county senate council, the director of the office of the Three Youth Leagues, and a number of township chiefs and section chiefs did not know where to go; Wang Shixie, Chen Jiu, and others fled overnight to the house of a security chief in Maohe to hide, and the next morning, they fled to the Han River with a small number of cronies and armed men; and Deng Hanmin, in order to fulfill the mission assigned by the "special meeting," rushed to the area of Shenwuling in Anjiahe under the stars with two squadrons to plot and plot." counterattack on the county seat".
At midnight on the 17th, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of our 34th Regiment set out from the county seat under absolute secrecy, and when they crossed the Train Ridge in the early morning, they found that the enemy's outpost command post had just been withdrawn, and Deng Hanmin's troops had already entered the Anjia River. I didn't fire a single shot, and immediately divided into two ways to outflank the river clamp shop. The east road crosses the mountain and exits the Mao Otter River, blocking the road behind the enemy's possible escape to Yunyang; the west road goes down the Wuma Stone, advances along the slope of the main road, and goes straight to the river Jiadian. At about 8 o'clock in the morning, when the forward troops of the North Road approached Hejiadian, the remnants of the enemy had withdrawn to the mountain behind Hejiadian, fought and retreated, and gradually fled in the direction of Guixian River.
After the two lines of our troops converged, they flanked the front and rear for about half an hour, and except for the scattered enemies scattered in the four mountains who fled, all the enemies concentrated in the Zhangjiagou valley were tightly surrounded. This group of people drilled into the thorn frame, entered the cave, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, full of ugliness. Suitcases, quilts, telephones and other items are everywhere. Under the powerful offensive of our commanders and fighters shouting "surrender their guns and not kill," most of the enemy disarmed and surrendered. Fifty-eight people were captured alive on the spot, and a number of guns, ammunition, and materials were seized and taken to Yunxi County on the same day.
On the morning of the 19th, by organizing the detainees to go to West Street to transport grain and hold a mass meeting, they made their appearance one by one and handed them over to the common people to recognize each other to see who was the good guy and who was the bad guy. My commander asked a Humpty Dumpty, "Who are you?" He replied, "I am the principal of the secondary school. A person who knew the inside story said: "Nonsense, you are not the principal, you are Chen Jiu, the secretary of the county government." Chen Jiu was suddenly frightened and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, I'm not honest, I'm lying." When asked about Huang Baozhang again, one of Huang's cronies said, "He is a good person." After saying that, he hurriedly burrowed into the crowd and disappeared. Another insider hurriedly added: "He is not a good person, he is Huang Baozhang, secretary of the county party department, and he is a bully gambler." "The masses were bombarded and wanted to rise up and fight, but they were stopped by one of our commanders.
After counting, among the 58 people, Chen Jiu, secretary of the county government, Huang Baozhang, secretary of the county party department, Chen Wanli, chief of the police department, Liu Wuzhen, chief of the military section, and Lei Xun, head of Rocket Township, were among the 58 people. The next day, according to the severity of the crime, he was "locked in separate cages". After repeated interrogations and appraisal by the neighborhood peasant associations, and reported to the higher authorities for approval, the six main culprits were taken to Huangyunpu Daobeiliang for suppression, and the rest were released leniently after study and education, and some of them were arranged to work.
The remnants of the enemy counterattacked, and our army attacked
In order to realize his oath of the "special meeting", Deng Hanmin went to Shenwuling and carried out a series of careful planning. On 17 and 18 November, he sent his cronies "squad leader Wang" three times in a row to disguise themselves as peasants and go to the county seat to collect military intelligence on us. The result of the spy was: "The county seat was empty, and all the communist troops withdrew to Tumen, which was 30 miles away from the county seat." Deng Hanmin was still not at ease, and on the 19th, he sent people to the county four times to spy on the county, and the conclusion was still the same, and Deng believed it. After 12 midnight on the 19th, Deng personally led two squadrons to set off from Anjiahe.
The trial went to the mountains around Hejiaxing outside the East City. First of all, a squadron familiar with the terrain was sent to seize the East Yellow Mountain behind the county seat before dawn, and first released a few shots to observe the movement. In fact, the Fifth Brigade (temporary number) of our army had already been prepared, withdrew from the county seat during the day, hid in the homes of the masses, and entered various hilltop positions at night to ambush. After the enemy fired empty guns, Deng Hanmin saw that the time had come, and immediately led a squadron from Dongguan into the city. At this time, the soldiers of our army who were ambushed in the east and west Huangshan and Chunshan fired at the enemy together. Deng Hanmin knew what he was planning, so he hurriedly whistled and gathered, shouting: "We are surrounded!" Quickly get out of Dongcheng and flee in the direction of Anjiahe. When our army counterattacked on the eastern side of the Yellow Mountain, they killed 2 enemies, captured 4 alive, and captured 4 rifles. Deng Hanmin lost his guns because of the failure of the sneak attack, and for fear that our army would eat it, he quickly took a small road, fled to Nanxiang, and then smuggled across the Han River, and joined Wang Shifan, who had fled to Jiangnan, and escaped into Baihe County together. Later, Wang Shixie was ordered to piece together the remnants and sporadic hegemonic forces into the so-called "Hubei Fourth Regiment" and continue to carry out sabotage activities.
Wang Shixie, Deng Hanmin, and others took advantage of the fact that our foothold was unstable and the people's hearts were undecided to spread rumors on both sides of the Han River, snare the remnants of the forces, organize an armed rebellion, and send spies to spy on our military intelligence, dreaming of counterattacking the county seat of Yunxi again.
In order to prevent the enemy from carrying out a "north-south flank attack" on Yunxi City, on the 22nd, the regimental headquarters sent three battalions and five companies to attack the area of Sigou in the deep mountains in the north of the city. According to intelligence, when the enemy county government fled, more than 100 militia members fled to Anjiahe and then fled here. Due to the unfamiliar terrain, our troops were unable to block all the enemy, and ran a lot, only three mortars (only one of which could be used), but they posed a great threat to the enemy. Within a few days, Wan Yineng, the former Kuomintang township team, led more than 20 people and more than 10 guns to surrender to me.
According to other intelligence, there was a concentration of enemies at the mouth of the Tianhe River in an attempt to make trouble. On the 23rd, more than 100 people from my battalion and a company passed through Guanyin Hall and attacked Tianhekou. There are not many enemies there, and most of them are armed with township protection. When the enemy saw that our army had arrived, some crossed the river and fled to Yunxian, while others went into the ravine along the Han River. The enemy hid a lot of materials at the mouth of the Tianhe River, including grain, cloth, wine, meat, and other things. Due to the lack of reconnaissance of the situation in advance, we went too little and were too busy to take care of it, some of us guarded the supplies, and some pursued the enemy to more than ten miles below the mouth of the Tianhe River. During the frontal attack, several enemy backbones were killed, more than 10 people were captured, and the rest ran away. Our army then withdrew to the mouth of the Tianhe River and brought supplies and prisoners back to the county seat.
On December 6 and 7, the 34th Regiment sent part of its troops to annihilate the local recalcitrant part of the Banqiao River along the Han River. At this time, the remnants of the two Yun bandits, which were entrenched in the northeast corner of Yunxi and Daliu in Yunxian County, often came and went to harass them, colluded with the fleeing township security personnel, desperately cheered up, formed small armed groups, and specially spread rumors and rumors, causing the peasants not to dare to approach me.
In the early part of the same month, Huang Wenzhong, deputy political commissar of the 34th Regiment, led his troops to the Badaohe River to pursue and suppress several times. The enemy knows that the PLA loves the common people, so they are all dressed in civilian clothes, some of them are still very tattered, they are "peasants" during the day, but they are bandits at night, and it is very difficult to clean up. At the same time, on the edge of Shaanxi at the junction of Sanguandong and Badaohe, there is a Dang Wenbin, known as the "party battalion commander", who is very stubborn. He took advantage of his relatives, friends, old subordinates, and other inextricable social connections to win over many fugitive township security personnel, formed gangs, shrunk day and night, fabricated lies, and shook the people's hearts.
In the middle of the year, Fu Xianhui, deputy brigade commander and chief of staff of the 12 th Brigade, led the 7th Company of the 36th Regiment's 3rd Battalion and a mountain artillery company to the Badaohe, Sanguandong, and Zhaochuan border areas in the muddy and slippery roads and icy snow, and fought while reconnoitring, and captured Dangjiadong on 24 December, killing and wounding more than 40 enemies, and capturing 5 light machine guns, 2 heavy machine guns, and more than 30 pistols, as well as rifles, food, clothing, steel, tobacco, and other items. Dang Wenbin was killed on the spot after being wounded. Our troops lost several casualties during the attack on the cliff cave. Since then, the enemy's nest in the northeast corner of the county has been cleared, laying a good foundation for the comprehensive suppression of bandits in the future.
In mid-January 1948, the enemy took advantage of the opportunity of our main forces to annihilate the enemy in the Yun and Jun areas of the Eastern Front, and tried to raid our rear. Hu Zongnan reorganized the 46th Regiment of the 65th Division, the Shangxian Security Regiment, and the Shanyang Returning Township Regiment, totaling more than 2,000 people, who went east in two ways and moved to Dahuling, Gaobadian, Manchuanguan, and Shangjin. The 9th Company of the 35th Regiment stationed in Gaobadian was captured by the enemy. The enemies of Baihe, Zhen'an, and Zhaochuan are also staring at Yunxi and are ready to move. The headquarters of the 12th Brigade and the 4th Division of our command organs moved south from Huangyunpu to Ma'anchuan. The brigade headquarters decided to send one battalion each of the 34th, 35th, and 36th regiments to set out from Yunyang and march west to the areas around Shangjin and Manchuan, but the enemy fled when he heard the news, and only captured more than 10 enemy men. The 34th Regiment stayed on the northern front to monitor the enemy of the mountain merchants, and the rest returned to various parts of the county to suppress bandits.
On February 16, 19, and 29 of the same year, as well as from March to August, and from May to August 1949, the bars in Miaochuan, Guanfang, Jiahe, Shangjin, and Anjia successively attacked the political power of the county, district, and village to which we belonged, causing many murderous and bloody incidents. In April, June, August, September, and October, the Zhen'an Joint Defense Team, the Independent Battalion, and the Shangguan Independent Regiment launched five major attacks on the bars in various places. The arrogance of the bar team in the area of Guanfang and Miaochuan weakened, some of them hid on the spot, and some fled to Taoyang, Baihe, Zhen'an, and Shanyang.
Consolidate Yunxi and stabilize the overall situation
On November 17, 1947, the 36th Regiment opened the county seat of Zhen'an. On the 19th, the headquarters of the 12th Brigade and the 36th Regiment joined forces in the county's Miliangchuan. Originally, it was planned to establish a base area in southern Shaanxi here, but after on-the-spot observation, it was found that the rice, grain, Sichuan and mountains were sparsely populated, the terrain was narrow, the military resources were insufficient, and the transportation was inconvenient. On the 23rd, the brigade headquarters led the 35th Regiment (two battalions) and the 36th Regiment to enter Miaochuan from Hubeikou. Arrived at Kamitsu on the 27th. According to the needs of the war situation, two county governments, the Zhen'an Joint Defense Brigade and the Shangguan Independent Regiment, were established in Miaochuan and Shangjin along the way, and the 35th Regiment was left to fight the enemy in the vicinity of Shanyang and Manchuan Pass.
On 30 November, the brigade headquarters and the 36th Regiment arrived at Huangyunpu and stationed there, and later set up the leading organs of the Dangmei Army, such as the party committee, headquarters, prefectural committee, special office, Hubei and Shaanxi Weekly Newspaper Office, public security supervision office, sub-district health office, and the newly established Hubei and Shaanxi Military and Political University, in Tumen. For a time, it became the political, military and cultural center of southern Shaanxi and northwest Hubei.
Huangyunpu, Xiangkou, Tumen, the county seat, Ma'an and other places, once liberated, have never been occupied by the enemy. But Yunxi was surrounded by enemies on all sides. There were the 65th and 47th divisions of Hu Zongnan in Zhen, Zha, Shan, and Shang; in Baihe and Xunyang, there was one regular regiment of the enemy (first Ma Hongkui's department, then in the south of Hu Zong), and the 4th and 8th regiments of Ebao, and the 7th and 8th regiments of Shaanxi; in western Henan and Zhaochuan, Bai Qingyun and Luo Jingzi; in Yunyang and Jiangnan, there were Ren Xiaobald and Wu Blind and other units; in addition, Yunxi carried out "acute land reform," and the policy was "leftist," and the masses were afraid. The remnants of the enemy's local armed forces in Jiahe and other places seized the opportunity to secretly link up with each other and collude with the inside and outside, and successively formed more than 60 units of gangs or regiments called the Returning to the Hometown, the Tough Fight, the Red Gun Society, and the White Belt Society, which were arrogant for a while, often carried out reactionary propaganda against the masses, sabotaged the nascent revolutionary regime in our country, killed the cadres of the peasant associations in our districts and villages, and robbed the masses of their property, thus seriously threatening the consolidation of the base areas.
Entrenched in Baihe, the Fourth Regiment of Hubei led by the Kuomintang fugitive county magistrate Wang Shixie (later Ke Yushan) was the spiritual pillar of the small group around Yunxi. They colluded with each other, cheered each other up, secretly connected with each other, and echoed up and down; although they could not become a big climate, they shook the people's will, hurt the masses, and did great harm.
The enemy is particularly clear: the Baihe River is the gate of southern Shaanxi and the important town of the Han River, and by holding the Baihe River, you can control the water passage of the Han River and control the political and military lifeline of the Hubei-Shaanxi border. At the same time, the enemy also understands very well: Yunxi is the gateway to the Central Plains, a springboard for crossing the river, and a corridor for entering the river. If the enemy wants to keep Sichuan, he must stabilize southern Shaanxi, he must defend the Baihe River to the death, and if he wants to defend the Baihe River, he will control Yunxi. Therefore, in order for our army to consolidate Yunxi, it must first liberate Baihe, dig up the nest of the Fourth Regiment of Hubei and Bao, and open the door to march into southern Shaanxi.
In late March 1948, our army concentrated the strength of 5 regiments and liberated Baihe County for the first time on March 31, destroying more than 1,800 enemies. Wang Shixie, the former magistrate of Yunxi County, was captured alive by me in Tianchiling, Yunxi, and taken to Baihe County that night for a preliminary trial. On April 1, Baihe held a celebration meeting of 10,000 people, and four heinous bandit leaders were suppressed, and Wang Shixie was beheaded. The next day, Wang was escorted to Yunxi County, and after more than a month of education, because he had not served for a long time, his evil deeds were not great, and his confession was good, according to the opinions of the masses and with the approval of Commander Liu Jinxuan, it was decided to release him leniently, and sent a special person to send him to the Nanbeifeng District Office (which belonged to Yunxi at that time), and then transferred to the enemy-occupied area of Jiyangguan in Zhushan County. But the enemy did not let down the butcher's knife because of my leniency. In May 1948, the enemy sent Chen Zonghai to serve as the exiled "Yunxi County Magistrate" and the head of the Fourth Regiment of Hubei Bao, in an attempt to clean up the mess and regain its strength. But this man knew that the general trend was gone, and after a while, he left without saying goodbye.
In July of the same year, the enemy sent Ke Yushan, who had served as the magistrate of Yunxi County during the Anti-Japanese War, to succeed Chen Zonghai and entrust him with the title of "Commander of the Communist Party of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Hubei". At the same time, Hu Zongnan took advantage of the fact that our main force was moving east to participate in the battles of Wanxi and Xiangfan, and allocated another regiment to return to Baihe County. The regular army and the miscellaneous army are even more arrogant and crazy. From July 18 to 22, 1948 and August 21, 1949 alone, he instigated three anti-village incidents in Shangjin, arrested and coerced more than 620 cadres and masses, robbed more than 240 weapons of various types, robbed three warehouses and a store, and killed more than 10 cadres and masses. After hearing the news, the small stock teams in other places revived, and they were also ready to move, and they were arrogant for a while. The Yunxi base area has fallen into unrestful turmoil again.
From the winter of 1948 to the spring of 1949, our 12th Brigade was tempered in the Wanxi, Xiangfan, and Huaihai campaigns, and through summing up and reorganizing, its fighting spirit became more vigorous, its weapons more sophisticated, and its tactics were further improved. In order to eliminate the stubborn enemy, from May 24 to 26, 1949, our army concentrated its forces and liberated Baihe for the second time in one fell swoop, capturing more than 1,560 people below the head of the enemy's regiment and killing and wounding more than 300 people. More than 100 people drowned in the Han River.
From then on, the White River was completely liberated. The safety of the military and civilians along the Han River in our county has been guaranteed. However, the main force of the cunning Fourth Ebao Regiment (which had been changed to the "Yunxi Self-Defense Corps" at this time) had fled to the border areas between southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan a day or two ahead of schedule, and continued to do evil, threatening to "take Daba Mountain as a base and hold out until the outbreak of World War III, and we will definitely recover Yunyang." For Liangyun, especially Yunxi, if this tumor is not removed, it is still a hindsight.
In the summer and autumn of 1949, the clean-up team entered a climax. In the western part of the county, in August and September alone, there were more than 15 large-scale clean-up battles, arresting nearly 20 other people at or above the company level, such as bandit leaders Huang Longming, Feng Yuanfa, and Chen Hongfa, and striving for 408 soldiers of the enemy's department to register and go home, including more than 200 in Jiahe, 60 in Guanfang, and 106 in Shangjin.
By the end of December 1949, all the important towns of Ankang, Hanzhong, Shiquan, and Hanyin in Liannan had been liberated; the regular Kuomintang troops had fled to the northern Sichuan area to hold on; and some of the bars in Yunxi had been destroyed, fled, surrendered, surrendered, and fought among themselves. Gradually the ice disintegrates. The four regiments of the Equal Protection had no backing on the mountain, no foundation on the bottom, and shrank all day long on the Daba Mountain at the junction of Hubei, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces, begging for food.
In mid-January 1950, more than 1,000 people from the 303rd Unit of the Ankang Military Division and the Pingli County Independent Battalion were under the leadership of Tai Jinduo. On the Jixin Ridge in the shallow ditch of Daba Mountain between Zhenping in Shaanxi and Zhuxi in Hubei, the Fourth Regiment of Hubei was wiped out in one fell swoop (at this time the full name was "Shaanxi-Hubei Border Area Self-Defense Finger Hun Division"), and Ke Yushan hanged himself in despair. Around this time, more than 800 people were taken prisoner to surrender to me. Since then, I have pulled out the last nail that affected the consolidation of the Yunxi base area.
The ups and downs of the enemy army (including the regular army and the bar team) in the whole Yunxi and the surrounding areas have two high tides and two low tides. Two climaxes: one was in the summer and autumn of 1948, when most of our regular army went south to participate in the Xiangfan and Xuzhou campaigns, and the second was in the spring of 1949, when Huzong retreated from Xi'an in the south, passing through Shangjin and around the time. During these two periods, the large and small stock bars were arrogant and harassed everywhere. At that time, the Shangguan Independent Regiment and the Jiangbei Detachment, which remained in the Yunxi area to suppress bandits, played an important role.
In particular, in the Jiahe, Lantan, Shangjin, Mengchuan, Daba, Yanjia, Pailou, Diling, Guanfang, Manchuan, and Jianshan, Shuanghe, and Lianhuachi on the border of Xunyang, north of the Han River, they fought bloody battles against the enemy more than 100 times, and defended the safety of the lives and property of the Shangguan, Zhen'an, and Shanyang county governments, the Yunxi County governments, and the broad masses of the people who lived in the Shangjin and Huangyun areas at that time. The two low tides were the two low tides after the liberation of Baihe County in March 1948 and May 1949, when the enemy's spirit was frustrated. But the heart of restoration is not dead, and the small sabotage activities have never stopped.
From November 1947 to January 1950, in two years and three months, the three regiments of the original 12th Brigade, with the cooperation of the newly established Shangguan Independent Regiment, Yunbai Independent Regiment, Yunxi Independent Battalion, Zhen'an Joint Defense Brigade, Shangnan Independent Regiment, Yunjun Independent Regiment, and Jiangbei Detachment, liberated Shanyang four times, Baihe, Liangzhu, Fang, and Xunyang twice, Zhen'an, Shangnan, and Longju Village three times, and Yunxian and Junxian at the same time. In the process of consolidating the Yunxi New Area, the prominent battles that directly confronted the enemy included the Battle of Hejia, the Battle of Tianhekou, the Battle of Guangouliangzi, the Battle of Anjiahe, the Battle of Shangjin City, the Battle of Taipingshan, the Battle of Lotus Pond, the Battle of Dawanggou, the Battle of Big and Small Xinchuan, the Battle of Turtle Shiya, the Battle of Luomadian, the Battle of Diling, the Battle of Qingfengzhai, the Battle of Shibapan, the Battle of Tiankengchong, the Battle of Sanliwa, the Battle of Thirty-six Rocks, the Battle of Dazashan, the Battle of Tuzhaizi, the Battle of Jiulong Temple, the Battle of Jinluan Mountain, the Battle of Shenwuling, the Battle of Heishui River, The Battle of Jiahe Pass and other more than 100 times.
It successively eliminated the Fourth Regiment of Hubei and more than 50 large and small units such as Ai Guangqing, Fan Bangcheng, Xu Bangshi, Deng Chuanzong, Zhang Zhengkun, Yang Jichang, Wang Zhengjia, and Xue Jing, and annihilated more than 3,000 enemies. Over the past two years or so, the enemy has attacked us and caused losses in more than 20 incidents, including the Jiaoyuan Incident, the Zhaojiahe Incident, the Baiyangling Incident, the Tiezhuang Village Incident, the Dafuling Incident, the Yangerdong Incident, the Huping Incident, the Shangjincheng Incident, the Siyuhe Incident, the Anjiahe Incident, and the Zhuxiao Temple Incident. According to incomplete statistics, in the battles to liberate and consolidate Yunxi, Yunxi sacrificed more than 1,000 people, including more than 700 martyrs and more than 200 foreigners.
Practice has proven that consolidation is more difficult than liberation. Liberation took only a few days, while consolidation took two years.
The years of bloody struggle against the enemy have passed, history is developing to a new height, the blood of revolutionary martyrs has not been shed in vain, and it will take several generations of people to continue to work hard to carry forward the party's glorious traditions and build a modern new Yunxi.
Continued in the next issue!